Hey there, hope you all had a great christmas! šŸŽ„ We wonā€™t be talking too much about particular tech today: Before it turns 2025, there are a few words I would very like to share.

First, thanks to everyone that managed to find this blog and are somewhat interested! Itā€™s my first time maintaining something like this, and I have to say, I never thought self-hosting would be this complex and exhausting. There have been sessions of me trying to fix stuff or change stuff on my home server, and what was estimated to take a Friday afternoon ends up taking the whole weekend. Things sometimes break, seemingly by themselves, and I would then have to figure out whether itā€™s an issue on my side or itā€™s something that broke upstream. And neither of them are pleasing to deal with, as you can imagine. šŸ˜›

And then, thereā€™s the blog: Iā€™m trying to keep up producing content, but as you can see, I havenā€™t been too successful, evident by the fact that the last post dates back to Julyā€¦ I will be trying to write more posts in the next year, but I canā€™t guarantee too much. Things have been moving very fast in my home lab and I bring up or tear down new services pretty often, I have to say. But thatā€™s also due to the fact that nothing has ever really stabilized in my home lab: Hardware configurations change, devices get repurposed, or maybe I find alternatives to what I have - be it services, workflows or whatever really. Not sure if I will be writing about it too much, but the quick version is: Iā€™ve moved back to my old laptop for hosting the services, and now use the N5105 box with OpnSense. And even after all this, Iā€™m sure that I will be looking for different hardware at most 2 years later. And thatā€™s hard to cope with the blog - things move way faster than I could ever write blog posts.

But those are all just excuses. Iā€™ve always been dreaming of something big, and this blog might as well be the start to it. A lot has happened in the last year, and Iā€™ve also changed, by a lot. Some things might never be the same again, and some things are due to be fixed. Thereā€™s time, weā€™ll tackle them one by one, starting with this blog.

I hope it didnā€™t sound overly dramaticā€¦ did it? Anyways, that was the somewhat emotional part. But hold on, before you leave, I have to tell you to check out the third Sonic movie, in theaters right now. Not going to give any spoilers, all that I can say is thatā€¦ ā€œMaria!ā€ (Shadow noises) šŸ¦” On a side note, did he ever smile, even once? Kind of sad to think about it. šŸ™

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Alright, thatā€™s all Iā€™ve got for you today. I still got quite a few topics to write about in the next year, so donā€™t worry - it wonā€™t get boring. Happy new year, and I guess weā€™ll see each other in 2025!